Improvement in-combined spice-package and pastry-utensil



R. S. WEST. Combined Spice-Package and Pastry-Utensil.

No. 220,781. Patented Oct.2l,1879.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ROBERT S. WEST, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO.

IMPROVEMENT IN COMBINED SPICE-PACKAGE AND PASTRY-UTENSIL.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 220,781, dated October 31, 1879; application filed April 2, 1879.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ROBERT S. WEST, of Cleveland, in the county of Ouyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented new and useful Improvem entsin Combined Spice-Package and Pastry-Utensil, of which the following is a description.

The purpose of this invention is to combine in one article-412., a spice-packageseveral pastry-utensils, consisting of a biscuit-cutter, cake-ring, and scalloped-ed ge cookycutter and cruller-cutter, all of which several utensils are combined in one article, which is used as a package for the sale of spice put up therein, and in which the consumer can keep the same or use the several utensils for the purposes specified.

A more full description of the invention is as follows, reference being had to the accompan ying drawings, making a part of this specification, in which Figure 1 represents an external View of the package, &c. Fig. 2 is a vertical transverse section. The rest of the figures are detached sections, showing separately the several utensils above mentioned.

Like letters of reference refer to like parts in the several views.

For the convenience of both the dealer and the consumer spices and similar articles are put up in packages. To this end is the purpose of the box or package herein described, and shown in the drawings.

Said package consists of three distinct parts, which, when put together, form a box, an external view of which is shown in Fig. 1. Said box consists of a cover, A, fitted on over a ring, Bthe body of the box. The cover is prevented from slipping too far on over the ring by a bead, 0, against which the edge of the cover rests. The bottom of the box consists of a disk, 0, provided with an upturned rim adapted to fit snugly on the lower edge of the ring or body B, as seen in Figs. 1 and 2.

Within the rim alluded to is secured to the face of the disk a corrugated flange, D, Figs. 5 and 6. Said flange is of a diameter to fit within the ring, so that on placing the disk on the ring the edge thereof will be clamped between the rim and the flange sufficiently tight to prevent the bottom from coming off too easily. This bottom, together with the top or cover A and the ring above described, when fitted together, constitutes the package or box shown in Figs. 1 and 2.

The packages are used for putting up spices, &c., for sale, when empty, the consumer can use the several parts of the box for pastry pur poses, as follows:

The top or cover A can be used as a cakecutter, a detached view of which is shown in Fig. 4. It can also be used as a dish in which to bake muffins, &c. The body or ring B may be used as a hoop in which to bake puffs and other similar articles. The bottom 0, with its corrugated flange, is intended for cutting scalloped-edge cakes, &c., all of which articles are of family use, and in buying a package of spice such articles are furnished by the package containing the spice, and which at the same time is a box in which to keep the spice by the family.

By securing a tube, d, in the center of the cover A, as shown in Fig. 2, the cover can be used for cutting crullers and other cakes having a hole in the middle, in which event the tube is provided with a stopper to prevent the contents of the box from spilling out when the box is used as a package.

In practice the cover A is struck up from a single piece of metal; hence, when the cover is used for baking purposes, it will not come apart by the heat. Also, the ends of the ring are fastened together with a rivet to prevent their separation when used for baking.

I am aware that boxes are used for spicepackages, and that the several utensils above described are in domestic use 5 but these I do not claim separately; but

That which I do claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

In a package for the sale of spices, powders, and other similar merchantable articles, the combination of a top piece, supplied on its un= der side with a cake-cutter, the bottom section of the cylindrical portion, having a vent hole for a biscuit-cutter, and the middle cylinder for a muflinring, substantially as and for the various purposes described.

ROBT. S. WEST.

Witnesses J. H. BURRIDGE, F. RANSOM. 

